Peter Ramos

Please Do Not Feed the Ghost Peter Ramos

Poetry. Peter Ramos has a gift for valuing the past, both personal and historical, without losing sight of how it can threaten the present. The immense, rich wastage of America feeds these poems. They take resonance, too, from mythic parental figures, which Ramos honors with a spareness and precision of language, holding their inconsolable power within the tension of poetic form--Allen Grossman.